Gary Mills said he felt sorry for debutant Simon Heslop after the new recruit made his debut in Saturday’s disappointing 3-1 loss at home to Woking, and called on his players to ‘snap out’ of their current slump.

Wrexham have lost their last four National League encounters to keep them in 11 place in the standings and eight points off the top five.

Mills gave Heslop, who signed for the Dragons last Saturday after his deal at Torquay United expired on January 1, his debut and the midfielder didn’t disappoint, putting a performance that earned him the sponsors man of the match award.

“I thought he was magnificent,” said Mills when questioned on Heslop’s performance.

“I know what Hesy is all about, he puts himself around the park with a lot of energy and he was our best player by a mile. Our best player with his desire even when we were behind, you could still see he was the one trying to drive us on.

“I felt for him a little bit today, that was a tough debut for him, to come into, but he was our best player for me by a mile. And I am not just talking whether it was passing or whether it was heading, just his desire to want to get a result today.”

Mills was asked if Heslop was the type of player he would be looking to bring to the club in the January transfer window.

However, the manager intimated there may not be any further movements in the window, but that he felt he had sufficient players within the camp to be successful.

He added: “It is not a case of who I can bring in, we are not in a situation where I can bring players in, we haven’t got the finances here to do that, so that is certainly not going to be the case.

“But whether Hesy is the similar type of player we need to bring in, we have got players here that can do that. As always in football, players lose a little bit of confidence and belief in themselves, because it is not going too well, but whoever it is and whatever it is they have got snap out of it and we have got to put it right.

“We are gradually working down that league and that is not what I want to be going, I want to be going the other way, so it is not a nice place to be at the moment. But that is where we have got ourselves and that is where we are and the fact of it and it is down to us to do something about it.”